ppl. a. [pa. pple. of WITHDRAW v.] In various senses of the vb.; sometimes in a purely static sense, secluded; also of mental state, detached.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., VI. 477. Where abide My Mother, with her withdrawne housewiferies. Ibid., XXIII. 8. Wake, Leaue this withdrawne roome.
a. 1651. Sir J. Skeffington, Heroe of Lorenzo (1652), 13. She shut her self up in the most retired room, the most withdrawn chamber of the Palace.
1713. C’tess Winchilsea, Misc. Poems, 94. The withdrawn, the absent Mind.
1723. Pope, Lett. to Swift, 12 Jan. Your withdrawn and separate state.
1849. A. Scratchley, Build. Societies, 100. Withdrawn shares (not wholly subscribed for).
1858. Thoreau, Maine Woods, ii. (1918), 157. The stream was so withdrawn … that my companions … concluded to go farther up it.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 22 Feb., 7/1. The withdrawn lot [of horses] includes Stowmarket and Indian Queen.
